This fundraiser will be for an additional RAID controller which has become necessary to connect the JBOD to PaddyM. This RAID card will also feature a battery backup and is a mirror to the current RAID card that's working on GeorgeM.

The sooner we get this one knocked out, the sooner we can get PaddyM up and running.

When I started this venture with our group of Directors/Officers, one of the reasons I did so was in response the people who complained that they wanted to donate to SETI in a more direct fashion, i.e. hardware and whatnot but didn't have a viable venue.

I honestly never expected we'd be this successful in such a short time.

In truth, all we do is give our donors another venue to help SETI at Home. They're the rock stars of the concert, we're just the guys who drive the van.

2. The lab got a kick out of the paper organizers we sent them. From what I understand certain unnamed members of the Lab threw Holy water on the organizers once they were unboxed and quickly retreated from the room.

3. I'm slated to call the guys tomorrow to suss out a few details for upcoming projects/ideas. Like my SETI crunching brethren I too have to beg for work on occasion.

4. It appears likely that PaddyM's planned roles may be changing. I'm not sure where this leaves us in regards to download/upload functionality. This is one thing I'll be asking about tomorrow.

5. The new RAID card and battery backup have been ordered. The battery component has shipped but I haven't received tracking for the RAID card. At any rate both are now up on http://www.gpuug.org/purchases.

Since oscar's raid can't attach to the jbod, the plan is now to put a raid card in paddym, and try to make that the science database server, and oscar the compute server. Really just a minor swap, as both machines are quite similar in power/memory.

There also has been a bit of swapping about of RAM in order to make the most out of X or Y machine they intend to do A or B jobs. The above quote outlines the current plan of attack.

That's all I have for now. Once we get the servers sorted I'll be bugging Matt et al to get me a better Green Star awarding system.

Thanks for your hard work Brad. Green stars really should be strickly be for straight donation for Seti. It wouldn't do to have two donation letters go out for the same thing. How about a different color star for GPUUG donations. It wouldn't be hard to code I think.

On a side note. I know you mean well, but a third party should be in charge of awarding the stars. No conflict of interest then.Pluto will always be a planet to me.Seti Ambassador